The Dream Walkers after confronting Sheriff Joe: From left, in pink, Carlos Roa, Felipe Matos, Juan Rodriguez (behind Matos), and Gaby Pacheco [Photo PNT
They entered the belly of the beast, and they hugged it out with El Diablo. Literally.
That’s right, the four immigrant students many know simply as the Dream Walkers today ascended the 19th Floor of the Wells Fargo Tower, where Sheriff Joe Arpaio has his executive offices, and met with Maricopa County’s grumpy grandpa of a gendarme.
Three of the students are undocumented, one has legal residence, and there was also present a fifth comrade in arms.
Although Arpaio has made no bones in the past about arresting suspected illegal immigrants and locking them up, he declined to take the human bait offered by the students, famous for trekking by foot from their homes in Miami, Florida to Washington, D.C. earlier this year and confronting ICE agents and sheriffs all along the way.
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